"Celebrate Middlesex County" on June 10 at Fun, Free Event

By MIDDLESEX OFFICE OF COMMUNICATION

May 31, 2017 at 11:34 AM

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EDISON, NJ - Middlesex County is hosting an event on Saturday, June 10 at the County’s Roosevelt Park in Edison. Festivities will begin at 11 a.m. around the lake at Roosevelt Park, Parsonage Road, Edison.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The United States Hunter Jumper Association announced the dates for 2018 Zone Horse of the Year, Stirrup Cup and Equitation championships, which provide members with an exciting opportunity to earn Championship Points toward zone year-end HOTY and Stirrup Cup awards.

The championships are open to all zone competitors who meet the minimum requirements, except the ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The USHJA Foundation opened applications for the 2018 USHJA Foundation J.T. Tallon Memorial Equitation Grant, which provides $1,000 to one junior rider who has qualified for a select national equitation championship at a fence height of 3' or higher. Completed applications must be received by Aug. 1, 2018.

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ -The presentations ranged from a soothing spa experience to preventing head injuries in sports to advances in wound care as more than 200 students participated in the annual Tech Expo of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools.

“Every year our students demonstrate their creativity and their innovation in their Tech Expo presentations,” ...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — Somerset County Park Commission Lord Stirling Stable has announced the dates for the Junior Summer Workshops, which are themed five-day programs focusing on riding and horse care. The Stable is located at 256 South Maple Avenue in Basking Ridge.

MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The Standardbred Retirement Foundation will hold an auction for one breeding to Sweet Lou and one to Trixton for the 2018 season. The auction is on OnGait.com and will open Wednesday, March 14 at 9 a.m. and close Thursday, March 15 at 8:30 p.m.

EARTH CENTER, NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ - Consider this: just about everything we eat, wear and use comes from agriculture. That is why America’s farmers and their crops are celebrated each year on National Ag Day, which falls this year on March 20.

To honor this day, the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County has planned a new seminar entitled The State of ...

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - East Brunswick’s diverse habitats are home to a wide assortment of beautiful butterflies. With warmer weather on the horizon, butterfly aficionados can learn about the different species that soon will be flying in “East Brunswick’s Butterflies: From Azure to Zabulon,” a photo-filled program presented by David Moskowitz at the East Brunswick Public ...

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - Be alert and get your cameras ready for a rite of spring.

East Brunswick Birding invites residents to join them for their Spring Big Day Tour of the township's birding hotspots (including Dallenbach's, Heavenly Farms, Edgeboro Landfill, Bicentennial, Jamesburg and Ireland Brook Parks) on Saturday May 5. The adventure begins at Dallenbach Park at ...

SOMERVILLE, NJ - The organizers of Downtown Somerville Restaurant Week concede it’s an idea that is long overdue, so they’re rolling out the welcome mat, setting their tables, and offering a Prix Fixe menu certain to appeal to customers old and new.

Beginning Monday, March 19 and running through Saturday, March 24, the event is a showcase for more than one dozen of ...

In Cold Blood is, quite simply, the grand-daddy of true crime writing, dubbed by Capote, himself, as the first non-fiction novel (although Norman Mailer argued the point when he published The Executioner's Song in 1979.) The conditions under which I read In Cold Blood for the first time were pretty weird, which was another ...

This week I am taking a departure from book reviewing to share an important program that has been introduced to New Jersey this week by Mr. Ian Hockley, founder of the Dylan's Wings of Change Foundation. On December 14, 2012, Hockley's five year old son, an autistic child named Dylan, was gunned down in his classroom in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Dylan, a shy and adorable ...